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Why So Few Candidates for Community Council Election? By SUE PASCOE With only two contested races (out of nine Representative races) in the upcoming Pacific Palisades Palisades Community Council election–one for the Highlands seat, the other

Movies in the Park “Roars” Back The 15th season of Movies in the Park (MITP) started with the “The Lion King” tonight (August 4). About 400 people brought folding chairs, blankets and snacks as the first of four free movies, on Saturdays in August,

Impossible to Walk the Sidewalk? If you plan to walk to Will Rogers State Beach down Temescal Canyon Road sidewalk—and maybe push a stroller, be prepared to traverse a hazardous course of wood (and a broken sidewalk.) The L.A. Municipal Code (Ord.

Problem in Pacific Palisades? Try Your Community Council I was contacted by a person who lives in the condos next to the alley off Swarthmore (across from the Caruso development). They told me that construction in “Carusoville” had been starting too

  BOCA Returns to Pacific Palisades BOCA, a woman’s clothing store that was located on Swarthmore before Palisades Village construction razed the storefronts, has returned to Pacific Palisades. The store re-opened yesterday (August 1) in the

                      ‘As the Council Turns’ By SUE PASCOE The latest soap opera installment of “As the Council Turns,” featuring the Pacific Palisades Community Council, occurred at

Five Must Dos in August in Pacific Palisades GIVE BLOOD on Sunday, August 5 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Corpus Christi Hall, 890 Toyopa Dr. Make an appointment online. Visit: redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code Corpus Christi. MOVIES IN THE PARK

Electrical Outage in Pacific Palisades According to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power there is an outage affecting 1,755 customers that stretches from portions of of the west side of Temescal Canyon Road to the Marquez Knolls area to the

Palisades Dog Park on Hold By SUE PASCOE A new Palisades dog park, which would be built in Temescal Canyon, is on hold, because a major source of the proposed funding, Measure A, is being litigated. Measure A was a parcel tax measure that was on the

Hiking with a City Councilman, a State Senator and an LAUSD Board Member By SUE PASCOE A local social media site posted that L.A. Councilmember Mike Bonin, State Senator Ben Allen and LAUSD Board Member Nick Melvoin would participate in a “Hike with